The next meeting of the South Wales local group will be on TUESDAY 16th January at 5pm (Tea 4.30pm) at the Office for National Statistics, Cardiff Road, Newport. If you are planning to come to this meeting please contact me in advance.
On arrival, please park in visitors' spaces and report to reception.
The speaker will be Kim Bradford Smith (Senior Statistics Adviser, Africa Division of the Department for International Development).
TITLE: The last King of Scotland, Safaris and Statistics on the Equator
ABSTRACT: Snippets from a UK Government Statisticians’ experiences whilst working in Uganda
As part of the UK’s aid programme to Uganda, DFID has posted a statistician in the Uganda Bureau of Statistics since 2000. The statistics office wanted help with its 2002 population and housing censuses, its economic statistics, management, planning, advocacy, paying its utility bills and developing a Plan for the National Development of Statistics. The presentation, by Kim Bradford Smith who worked in the Uganda Bureau of Statistics from 2003 to 2005, will give an insight into the challenges of working in a developing country statistics office, provide examples of statistical support provided by the UK government, and give you an opportunity to know those handy pub quiz answers about one of the small number of countries that actually lies across the equator - does water actually flow straight down the plug hole on the equator?
All welcome
Rebecca
Rebecca Cannings-John
Statistician/Department of Health fellow
Department of General Practice
Centre for Health Sciences Research
Cardiff University
3rd Floor, Neuadd Meirionnydd
Heath Park
Cardiff CF14 4YS
Tel: 029 2068 7150
Fax: 029 2068 7219
www.uwcm.ac.uk/study/medicine/general_practice
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